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    • Peter McFarlandP
      Peter McFarland
      last edited by

      FYI - Avast thinks the uninstaller.exe hosts malware.
      NSIS_HacktoolX-gen_AvasMalwareDetection.png

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      • Andrew-NonA
        Andrew-Non @Peter McFarland
        last edited by

        @Peter-McFarland Same.

        What gives?

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        • PeterJonesP
          PeterJones @Andrew-Non
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          @Andrew-Non said in NSIS:HacktoolX-gen Malware/Avast:

          What gives?

          The “malware scanners” often confuse the NSIS installer/uninstaller signatures as being malware, because some malware uses NSIS installer/uninstaller. When enough users vote the notepad++ executable or installer/uninstaller safe, such warnings usually go away.

          (That’s one of my biggest frustrations with such anti-malware ratings: they give an application a black mark without investigating first. Which makes them useless, because then people just learn to ignore their warnings since they give so many false positives)

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